What began as a complaint from a businessman who had lost ₹2 lakh to a cyber fraud, ended with two police officers allegedly turning the victim into an accused and demanding a bribe to spare him from arrest. The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday (March 9, 2026) arrested two Armed Reserve (AR) sub inspectors posted at the Cyber Crime Police Station in the Malkajgiri Commissionerate for allegedly demanding and accepting ₹1 lakh from the businessman.
The accused were identified as Pramod Goud and Jatavath Babu Naik, both serving as Armed Reserve sub inspectors (SI) at the Cybercrime Police Station in L.B. Nagar. The victim, a 36-year-old businessman from Ramanthapur, approached the police after losing ₹2 lakh in an online fraud.
According to officials, the two officers allegedly turned the tables on the complainant and framed him as an accused in the case. An officer familiar with the investigation said the SIs then offered him a way out, telling him they would issue a notice under Section 35 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) instead of arresting him if he paid them ₹1 lakh. They also allegedly assured him that they would help facilitate a partial refund in the cyber fraud case.
